Jacques Tati

Field Experience One: Film Analysis Mon Oncle. Dir. Jacques Tati. Perfs. Jacques Tati. Gaunt Film Company, 1958. Enter Monsieur Hulot; a creation of Jacques Tati and an embodiment of pure comic genius. In the film, we’re introduced to the quaint, lively, simple, and positively extraordinary life of Monsieur Hulot and his culture. The family of M. Hulot includes his nephew Gérard, his sister Madame Arpel and her husband Monsieur Arpel. The Arpel family and M. Hulot come from vastly different lives and cultures. Hulot lives in a beautiful boarding house which is home to many diverse and happy people, who often communicate through warm feelings and actions; in contrast, the Arpel family lives in the center of a modernistic suburb that’s drearily colored with shades of grey and filled with almost non-existent neighbors, that when present, seem to…

General into session in 1788. This was the first time they had met since 1614 which suggest that the fiscal situation was dire. The Estates General meeting makes the fiscal crises also a political one as most of the attention was focused on various parties defining their position. Although it was clear that the parlements and nobility didn’t want to pay any taxes as they questioned Calonnes policies even after explaining the financial situation of France. After been exempt from tax for many…

1 Within the first twenty minutes of the film “American Beauty” I knew Freud would have had a hay day with this film. The main characters I will be referring to is Lester, Caroline, Jane, Angele, and Ricky. Luster is married to Caroline. Luster and Caroline’s daughter is Jane. Angele is Jane’s friend. Ricky will later become Jane’s romantic interest. This film is packed full of lustful relationships, blurred lines of morals, and unhealthy relationships. Lester develops lust for Angele. This…

gender and sexuality and those of Judith Butler, whose thorough deconstruction of structuralist iterations of cisheteronormative literary theory have provided the means for post-structuralists to address the effects of gender and sexuality essentialism on literature and its immense social impact. A central point in Butler’s book, Antigone’s Claim, is its challenge to the notion of socio-symbolically insupportable desire and aberrant gender non-conformity as a drive to certain death. Despite…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the protagonist, John “Scottie” Ferguson, falls in love with a falsified image of a woman named Madeline Elster. Madeline’s true name is Judy Barton, a woman payed by Gavin Elster to impersonate his wife and portray her as mentally unstable enough for Scottie to believe she committed suicide while the real Madeline Elster was in reality murdered by Gavin himself. Judy Barton uses her body, appearance, and mannerisms to create the character of Madeline in the image…

“A Poison Tree” by William Blake is ostensibly dealing with the narrator’s refusal to communicate his anger to a tree, but the overdetermined nature of the words Blake uses makes a final, correct determination of meaning impossible. In this paper, through a utilization of Derrida’s methods set forth in works such as Spectres of Marx and Dissemination, I will examine how the contradictory imperatives contained within the metaphors in this poem draw a reader away from their initial assumption…

nevertheless older than the amorosi. The servants or the clowns are referred to as the zanni and include characters such as Arlecchino, Brighella and Pedrolino. Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was born in 1921 in Paris, was a French actor, mime and acting instructor. Lecoq trained his actors in ways that motivated them to find ways of performance that they felt suited them best. His training was aimed at finding and nurturing the creativity of the performer, as opposed to giving sat tasks and…

Casey is a man who lived a very active life prior to a tragic accident in 1995. Although he was autistic, he felt like he lived an average life. According to Casey, he had a very widespread group of friends and was quite the social butterfly. Going through many different girls and going out a lot, he had an active dating life. He was an auto fanatic, with a certain interest in car audio. He was looking into a career in electronics. Emotionally, he was a blunt and outspoken person. Casey’s life…

The Review of the book Alone Together by Sherry Turkle In her book Alone Together, Sherry Turkle considers the issue of the relationships between people and technologies that has become critical nowadays. According to the author, the new “smart” technologies were perceived as the second intelligence that provided the opportunity to its users to estimate the trait of their minds and determine their “selves” through conversation with machines. However recently this attitude has significantly…

Lacan, From The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 1.The mirror stage helps an individual form a sense of self. a. This concept originated from looking at human behavior within the comparative psychology field. b. When looking in the mirror, the child notices that image that mimics his or her image in the mirror. c. He or she then must determine the relationship between himself or herself and the image reflected back…